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S2 E2 Compassionate Release

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine

Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

Added: Jun 07, 2019
Length: 37:16

Pony

From: Ibby Caputo

This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.

Added: Nov 03, 2018
Length: 03:13

To Think There's Nothing Else Out There

From: Sofia Saldanha

A tribute to the science fiction american old-time radio series, combined with an intriguing testimony of a woman that suspects that an alien race ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Aug 04, 2018
Length: 05:30
Purchases: 1

A Good Teacher is Like a Candle

From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship

Caption: ouda in front of KXCI–photo by her teacher Christina

In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...

Added: May 02, 2018
Length: 05:10

A License to Drive

From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship

Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license! Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...

Added: May 02, 2018
Length: 05:15

Maureen

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Sparx is a rat terrier Chihuahua, and he doesn’t let people get too close to me, I think for fear that they’re going to hurt me. He’s a good boy.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 04, 2017
Length: 04:22
Purchases: 1

Grandmothers Matter

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity.

Added: Oct 18, 2017
Length: 18:06

Kitty Keeps On Singing

From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us

Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.

Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East

Added: May 03, 2017
Length: 06:30
Purchases: 2

On the Other Side of Fear

From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship

Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor

Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

Added: Mar 29, 2017
Length: 04:15

Episode 63: Rochester, 1991

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio

Added: Mar 17, 2017
Length: 26:32
Purchases: 1

Episode 54: Melinda and Clarence

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story. Melinda...

Bought by ABC and WFAE

Added: Jan 13, 2017
Length: 31:45
Purchases: 2

Episode 53: Melinda and Judy

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...

Bought by ABC and WFAE

Added: Jan 13, 2017
Length: 25:27
Purchases: 2

Still Here: Caregiving and Dementia

From: Safe Space Radio

This hour-long special is about the unspoken challenges of caring for a family member with dementia. The show explores the experience of ambiguous ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WFAE and more

Added: Oct 12, 2016
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 22

Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Triptych photo illustration, Credit: Doug Dobey.

For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...

Added: Apr 15, 2016
Length: 27:38

Silence

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

Today, Americans seem to lack any type of silence in their lives. Silence should be a source of solace, but the modern mind is often discontent whe...

Bought by KUER and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Apr 13, 2016
Length: 03:40
Purchases: 2

Ovarian transplants are on infertility's cutting edge

From: Robin Amer

Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch

Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER

Added: Apr 05, 2016
Length: 10:29
Purchases: 3

A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother

From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials

Caption: Samantha Broun with Ernest Preate , Credit: Associated Press

This is a story about a terrible crime and everything that followed. It’s an intensely personal documentary, but it extends into public life and in...

Bought by HowSound, WGBH Radio Boston, KTSW 89.9, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WHYY and more

Added: Mar 01, 2016
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 19

Is That My Car?

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

New to Los Angeles, Ann was excited to start a new job and experience the Southern California lifestyle. However, she ran into some trouble when sh...

Added: Jan 25, 2016
Length: 01:48

The Myth of the Female Fertility Cliff

From: marnie chesterton

Women over 30 who haven't yet had kids are often told “tick tick; your biological clock is running out of time." Marnie Chesterton digs into the f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 19, 2015
Length: 10:00
Purchases: 4

Mama, I'm A Girl

From: Jonathan Hirsch

"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"

Bought by XRAY.fm

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 23:30
Purchases: 1

Baby's Bodyguard

From: Re:Work

All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...

Added: Jul 31, 2015
Length: 28:00

The Apocalypse

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series

I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

Added: Jul 31, 2015
Length: 04:19

In The Left Pocket, By My Heart

From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS

A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Added: Jul 31, 2015
Length: 20:02
Purchases: 1

Another Day Older

From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont

In this show, you’ll hear from women of all ages, from five to eighty-five. They talk about how they imagine their lives will be, how their lives a...

Bought by PRX Remix